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Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak

IRS Enters into Consent Decree Limiting Application of Johnson Amendment; New Position Allows Churches to Endorse Candidates in...

On July 7, 2025, in National Religious Broadcasters, et al. v. Billy Long, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Services, et al., Docket no: 6:24-cv-00311-JCB (E.D. Texas) (“NRB”), the IRS entered into a consent decree in...more

Fisher Phillips

SCOTUS Delivers a Win to Religious Organizations Seeking Certain Tax Exemptions: What Religious Schools Need to Know

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A recent Supreme Court ruling could have significant implications for religious schools and other nonprofit organizations seeking tax exemptions under state unemployment compensation systems. What standard will be applied to...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Scope of tax exemption for religious entities: The Catholic Charities case

On June 6, 2025, in a decision authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned a ruling of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which denied Catholic Charities Bureau an exemption from the state’s...more

Epstein Becker & Green

A Day of Near-Unanimity on Six Important Cases - SCOTUS Today

As this term draws to a close, the U.S. Supreme Court is getting busy in reducing its inventory of pending cases. Yesterday, six of them were resolved....more

Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak

In Compliance - Holtzman Vogel's September 2024 Round-Up

FEC Advisory Opinion Approves Federal Candidate Request to Add Super PAC to Joint Fundraising Committee - In Advisory Opinion 2024-07, the FEC approved a request made by Team Graham, the principal campaign committee of...more

Allen Matkins

In Determining Whether A Corporation Qualifies As A Religious Corporation, Words Speak Louder Than Actions.

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California readers most likely are aware of the fact that California's nonprofit corporate law is triadic.  Thus, it possible to organize a nonprofit corporation as a public benefit corporation, a mutual benefit corporation...more

Allen Matkins

Can Any Superior Court Judge Access Your Church's Books?

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The California Corporations Code allows for the incorporation of a corporation sole by the bishop, chief priest, presiding elder, or other presiding officer of any religious denomination, society, or church, for the purpose...more

Allen Matkins

Are Religious Corporations Constitutional?

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Like Gaul, the California Nonprofit Corporation Law has three major parts ("Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres').  These three parts govern the formation and operation of three different types of nonprofit corporations:...more

Allen Matkins

How A Corporation Can Become Religious Without Converting

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Although I have yet to encounter the situation, California provides a mechanism for a corporation formed under the General Corporation Law to become a nonprofit religious corporation.  Since religion is involved, it may come...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Tax-Exempt Lending to Governments and Nonprofits; Bank Loans and Direct Purchases of Municipal Securities

Commercial banks and other financial institutions (“lender” or “lenders”) have historically provided financing to both governmental entities and nonprofits on a tax-exempt basis through loans and direct purchases of municipal...more

Allen Matkins

A Corporation May Get Religion, But Not Easily

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Section 206 of the California Corporations Code provides that a corporation organized under the General Corporation Law may engage in any "business activity", subject to any limitation contained in its articles of...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Paycheck Protection Program Round 2: FAQs For Nonprofits - August 2021

The Paycheck Protection Program closed on May 28, 2021. The SBA is no longer accepting new applications from participating lenders. The following FAQs are for informational purposes only and to assist borrowers who obtained...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Paycheck Protection Program: FAQs for Nonprofits - UPDATED March #3

On December 27, the President signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. The Act includes a roughly $900 billion COVID-19 relief package, known as the “Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits and...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Paycheck Protection Program: FAQs For Nonprofits - UPDATED March 2021

On December 27, the President signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. The Act includes a roughly $900 billion COVID-19 relief package, known as the “Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits and...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Information Sheet: Nonprofit Borrowers-UPDATED August 2020

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What is the Paycheck Protection Program? The Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) is a loan program created by the federal CARES Act, which authorized $349 billion in forgivable loans to nonprofits, among other business...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Board Decides Religious Educational Institutions Not Subject To Labor Laws While Supreme Court Grapples With Ministerial Exception

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Key Points- •In the June 10, 2020, National Labor Relations Board (Board) decision Bethany College, the Board reversed its own 2014 decision, Pacific Lutheran University, and held that the Board lacks jurisdiction over...more

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Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Information Sheet: Nonprofit Borrowers

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The following information has been adapted from the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program Borrower Information Fact Sheet to provide information tailored for nonprofits. This document is for...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

CARES Financial Relief for Nonprofits

The Paycheck Protection Program will enable eligible nonprofit organizations that have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic to obtain funds to cover payroll, rent, interest, and utilities. For further information...more

White and Williams LLP

The CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program: Special Considerations For Not-for-Profit Organizations

The recently enacted multi-trillion dollar Cares Act has expanded Small Business Administration (SBA) business loans by creating a Paycheck Protection Loan Program (PPP), which offers forgivable loans to businesses impacted...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Claims Can Now Be Filed Under New Jersey’s New Law For Asserting Child Sex Abuse Claims

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Synopsis: New Jersey’s recently enacted legislation which significantly extends the statute of limitations for sexual abuse claims and creates a two-year filing window for sexual abuse claims that would otherwise be...more

Payne & Fears

Key California Employment Law Cases: March 2019

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This month’s key employment law cases address the religious organization exemption under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and arbitration agreements....more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

U.S. Labor Department Says Religious Community Members Are Not Employees

Nonprofit entities often question the dividing line between volunteer work and work considered compensable employment. On December 21, the federal Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division issued an opinion letter...more

Robinson+Cole RLUIPA Defense

Coffee Shop Church’s Claims Survive Motion to Dismiss, City Amends Code to Permit Use

A federal court in Maryland has denied the City of Laurel, Maryland’s (“City”) motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Redemption Community Church (“Church”). ...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

DOL Endorses Volunteer Treatment of Certification Exam Graders

DOL Opinion Letter confirms that volunteer status not jeopardized by nonprofit payment of expenses. Department of Labor Opinion Letter endorses non-employee classification of member volunteers at nonprofit, without...more

Allen Matkins

Governor Green Lights Bill Authorizing Immortal Ex Officio Directors

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California's Nonprofit Corporation Law embraces several different types of nonprofit corporations. Part 1 of the Nonprofit Corporation Law includes provisions that are applicable to three categories of nonprofit corporations...more

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